"Weber still saw the rarest of butterflies, fluttering mind, its paired wings pinned to the film in obscene detail."

Metaphor in Context

Hayes produced a series of images and clipped them to his light box: Mark Schluter's brain in cross section. The young neurologist saw only structure. Weber still saw the rarest of butterflies, fluttering mind, its paired wings pinned to the film in obscene detail. Hayes traced over the surreal art. Each shade of gray spoke of function or failure. This subsystem still chattered; this one had fallen silent. "You see what we're dealing with, here." Weber just listened to the younger man step through the disaster. "Something that looks like possible discrete injury near the anterior right fusiform gyrus, as well as the anterior middle and inferior temporal gyri"
(p. 131)